Haggai 1:2

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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.

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But the men that went up with him said, "We be not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we."

Now when king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe and their counsel, they went up in all the haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and forbade them with violence and power.

The Prophets, Haggai, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel.

And Judah said, "The strength of the bearers is too feeble, and there is too much dust, we are not able to build on the wall."

The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street."

The slothful sayeth, "There is a leopard in the way, and a lion in the midst of the streets."

He that feareth men, shall have a fall; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall come to honour.

Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.

He that regardeth the wind, shall not sow; and he that hath respect unto the clouds, shall not reap.

As I was asleep, and my heart waking, I heard the voice of my beloved, when he knocked. Open to me, said he, O my sister, my love, my darling, my dove: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of my hair are full of the night drops.